Two Figures is a bronze sculpture by the English sculptor Barbara Hepworth, which was cast in an edition of seven copies.
Both figures have narrow bases compared to the widths higher up, and they terminate on top with a flat, horizontal panel perpendicular to the front.
[2] Generally the bronze is smooth, with texture in the form of low-lying patches (a difference in depth similar to a thick layer of paint).
The figure is filled out on the back as though the silhouette of the front face were rotated on its vertical axis, so that any given horizontal cross section would be semicircular.
The higher one, placed a little less than ¾ up the height of the figure, is diametrically larger and pierces cylindrically through the entire sculpture, creating a window to the other side.
The third, just above the top of the upper hole of LR, goes through all the way to the point where the cylinder intersects the sides of the sculpture but not so far as to take out the angular edge opposite the front face.
On each back surface of PL there is etched a circle roughly corresponding to the height and size of the cylindrical holes.
Hepworth’s bronze castings were often made from wooden originals, and even within large additions there was often intentional color variation.
Marlborough Gallery in New York represented the Hepworth's work in the United States and sold the artwork to the IMA in 1980.
The surface of the bronze is protected from deterioration and corrosion by the yearly application of a fresh coat of hard wax.